There was vomit, blood and lots of cobwebs on the walls. There was water in the cell, but it ran dirty and smelled.
"In Kingisepp they didn't give me drinking water at all, only three decilitres of tea in the morning and evening. In an emergency, when I was terribly thirsty, I had to drink even the stinking water. Diarrhoea naturally followed. The toilet was a hole in the ground, like an open sewer. I don't even need to mention the outrageous smell," Mazák said.
In St. Petersburg, they had cockroaches in the cells, which caused prisoners to plug their ears with cotton wool
He describes the buckets from which they were fed as disgusting old buckets used to carry food for pigs. There were even remnants of the previous day's food in them, because nobody washed them properly.
"For breakfast we regularly had wheat porridge. Wheat cooked in water. Sometimes salty, sometimes sweet. Probably to give us the feeling that we were getting a varied diet," said Mazak, who lost 12 kilograms in Russia.
In St. Petersburg prison, there was only one large-capacity shower to meet the needs of 1,500 prisoners. They were entitled to it once a week, but even that was not being respected.
"I have heard from other prisoners that people with tuberculosis, gonorrhoea, AIDS also go there and no one has addressed this," he said.
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